Okay, last post: The Susan Greenfield article generator
It doesn't actually exist yet, but it's only a matter of time. Following her recent article about the potential neurological dangers of the newly announced "Facebook phone", it's
The sound of silence: George Prochnik and Mike Goldsmith on silence and noise
Add this (via Maria Popova) to my list of books to read: George Prochnik's In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise. Popova quotes this
“It is a habit of mind that we have lost sight of in our talkative age of information”
Karen Armstrong reviews Diarmaid MacCulloch's Silence: A Christian History: In the tenth century BC, the priests of India devised the Brahmodya competition, which would become a model of authentic theological
Brain fatigue and walks in Edinburgh
One of my favorite places in the world is Edinburgh. I first went there in graduate school, and spend several days at the Royal Observatory, and several nights
A note on description and prescription
One of the decisions I made when writing my book was that I wouldn't attack the work of people who've written about digital distraction, even when I disagreed
Other ambient sounds, courtesy of Adam Greenfield
In addition to having cool tattoos and a great book on ubiquitous computing, Adam points me to a couple other awesome ambient sound sites: You are listening to,
Background noise generator: Rainy Cafe Machine
For some people, the familiar but not-too-loud background noise of spaces like cafes can help them focus. But what do you do when you're not in a cafe?
The new must-have digital accessory? A double bed for you and your devices
So says the Daily Mail, though I don't guarantee that this is not an April Fools' Day joke: [T]he digitisation of childhood appears to be leading to changes
Self-experiments with tweeting and whitelists
All too true: The graphic comes from a post by Nicholas Baudrot about giving up Twitter for Lent, and deciding not to go back: After two days without
“we can educate ourselves, even in the digital era, to be more attentive”
This week's Chronicle of Higher Education has a long piece (behind a firewall) on the work of University of Washington professor David Levy. Levy wrote a very smart book in